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Penn IUR Scholar

Andrey D. Pavlov

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Professor of Finance, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

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    About

    Andrey D. Pavlov is a Professor of Finance at Beedie School of Business. He specializes in risk management for real estate investment, mortgage lending, financial derivatives and digital assets at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, where he is professor of finance. He has also worked on the modelling of aggressive lending practices, risk management for publicly traded real estate companies, and mortgage and equity securitization. He earned his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and was a visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania during the 2006 – 2008 period and taught real estate finance for the Wharton Executive Education program during the 2008 - 2020 period. He is a fellow of the Ziman Real Estate Center at UCLA, a winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Best Dissertation Award (2000), and a post-doctoral honoree of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute (2005). Professor Pavlov has a wide range of academic and industry-oriented publications. He has consulted for the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and private sector insurers, mortgage lenders and hedge funds. 

    Selected Publications

    Davidoff, Tom, Andrey Pavlov, and Tsur Somerville. (2022). Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbour’s property values. Journal of Urban Economics, 128.

    Davidson, Andrew, Alex Levin, Andrey Pavlov, and Susan Wachter. (2016). Why are aggressive mortgage products bad for the housing market? Journal of Economics and Business, 84, 148-161.

    Monfared, Sam and Andrey Pavlov. (2017). Political risk affects real estate markets. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 58(1), 1-20.  

    Pavlov, Andrey, Eduardo Schwartz, and Susan Wachter. (2021) Price Discovery Limits in the Credit Default Swap Market. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 62(2), 165–186.

    Pavlov, Andrey, and Tsur Somerville. (2020). Immigration, capital flows and housing prices. Real Estate Economics, 48(3), 915-949.

    Pavlov, Andrey, Eva Steiner and Susan Wachter. (2017). The consequences of REIT index membership for return patterns. Real Estate Economics, 46(1), 210-250.

    Pavlov, Andrey, Eva Steiner and Susan Wachter. (2016). REIT Capital Structure Choices: Preparation Matters. Real Estate Economics, 46(1), 160-209.

    Pavlov, Andrey, Susan Wachter, and Albert Zevelev. (2016). Transparency and Coordination in the Mortgage Market. Journal of Financial Services Research, 49(2/3), 265 – 280.

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Arthur Acolin

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    Assistant Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Department of Real Estate, University of Washington

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      About

      Arthur Acolin is an Assistant Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair at the Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington with a broad interest in housing economics and a focus on international housing policy and finance. He completed his PhD in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California in 2017. Recent research projects include a study of the presence of discrimination against different immigrant groups in the rental market in France with Raphael Bostic and Gary Painter, an examination of the effect of non-traditional mortgages on homeownership in the US with Xudong An, Raphael Bostic and Susan Wachter and the development of housing affordability indicators incorporating location for the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, Brazil with Richard Green. Prior to doing his Ph.D., Acolin was a Research Associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research working on housing, urbanization and economic development issues. He obtained a master in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

      Selected Publications

      Acolin, Arthur, and Domenic Vitiello. “Who owns Chinatown: Neighbourhood preservation and change in Boston and Philadelphia.” Urban Studies (2017): 0042098017699366.

      Acolin, Arthur, Xudong An, Raphael W. Bostic, and Susan M. Wachter. “Homeownership and Nontraditional and Subprime Mortgages.” Housing Policy Debate 27.3 (2017): 393-418.

      Acolin, Arthur, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter. “A field study of rental market discrimination across origins in France.” Journal of Urban Economics 95 (2016): 49-63.

      Acolin, Arthur, Jesse Bricker, Paul Calem, and Susan Wachter. “Borrowing constraints and homeownership.” The American Economic Review 106.5 (2016): 625-629.

      Acolin, Arthur, and Richard K. Green. “Measuring housing affordability in São Paulo metropolitan region: Incorporating location.” Cities 62 (2017): 41-49.

      Fellow

      Stuart Andreason

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      Assistant Vice President and Director, Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity

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        About

        Stuart Andreason is Assistant Vice President and Director, Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In his role he conducts research and works across the country to support Federal Reserve and partner organization efforts in workforce development, the labor market, and economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income workers.

        Andreason has been at the Federal Reserve since 2014 and previously served as a senior adviser on human capital and workforce development. In that role he has published articles on workforce development practice and policy and labor market trends, including deep analysis of opportunity occupations, or middle-skill jobs that pay high wages. He is the editor of Developing Career-Based Training and Models for Labor Market Intermediaries. He was a fellow of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences at Penn and a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss fellow. Previously, he led two nonprofit organizations focused on economic revitalization in central Virginia and worked for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.

        He is a reviewer for several academic and practice-based journals and publications. Andreason teaches economic development analysis at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in urban and environmental planning from the University of Virginia and a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

        Selected Publications

        Andreason, Stuart and Laura Wolf-Powers. 2012. “Aligning Secondary and Post-Secondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy or ‘If Low Educational Attainment = Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, What Can be Done About It.” In Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America, Laura W. Perna, ed. University of Pennsylvania Press.

        Lynch, Amy, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, Kenneth Steif, and Eugenie L. Birch. Sustainable Urban Development Indicators for the United States. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011

        Birch, Eugenie, Amy Lynch, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, and Kenneth Steif. Measuring U.S. Sustainable Urban Development. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011.

        Morse, Suzanne, Stuart Andreason, Tom Cross, and Joanne Tu. Southern Virginia: Building Competitive Advantage. Civic Change Incorporated. 2010.

        Andreason, Stuart. May 2014. Dissertation: “Will Talent Attraction and Retention Improve Metropolitan Labor Markets? The Labor Market Impact of Increased Educational Attainment in U.S. Metropolitan Regions 1990-2010.”  University of Pennsylvania.  

        Affiliated PhD Student

        Heidi Artigue

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        Doctoral Student, Applied Economics, Wharton

        About

        Heidi is a doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, focusing on urban and real estate economics. Her ongoing research involves the effects of work from home on real estate markets, and income sorting into small towns. She is also interested in how the location of high-income neighborhoods affects the landscape of low-income jobs. Prior to graduate school, Heidi was a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where she worked with historical geographic data on racial segregation in Philadelphia. Heidi earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Pomona College in 2019, where she also earned minors in Mathematics and Computer Science.

        Fellow

        Timothy J. Bartik

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        Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute

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          About

          Dr. Bartik’s research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets. This includes research on how early childhood programs affect local economies, and on job-creation programs. Bartik’s 1991 book, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies? is widely cited as an important and influential review of the evidence on how local policies affect economic development. Bartik is co-editor of Economic Development Quarterly, the only journal focused on local economic development in the United States.

          Bartik’s recent work on economic development includes research developing a database on economic development incentive programs around the U.S. He has also developed a simulation model of incentives’ benefits and costs for local residents’ incomes, and how these benefits and costs vary with incentive design, local economic conditions, and how incentives’ budget costs are paid for.

          Faculty Fellow

          Jere Behrman

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          William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

          About

          Jere R. Behrman is W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. A leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics with a focus on developing economies, Behrman has been Chair of Economics, Research Associate and Director of Penn’s Population Studies Center, Associate Director of the Lauder Institute, and Associate Director of Penn’s Population Aging Research Center, among other positions in the University. He has been an investigator on over 160 research projects, including 42 National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 14 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and has published over 400 articles and 35 books. The unifying dimension of much of this research is to improve empirical knowledge of the determinants of and the impacts of human resources given unobserved factors such as innate health and ability, the functioning of various institutions such as households and imperfect markets, and information imperfections. 

          Selected Publications

          Behrman, Jere R., Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd, and Kenneth I. Wolpin. 2015. “Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools.” Journal of Political Economy 123(2): 325-64.

          Richter, Linda M., Bernadette Daelmans, Joan Lombardi, Jody Heymann, Florencia Lopez Boo, Jere R. Behrman, Chunling Lu, Jane E. Lucas, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Tarun Dua, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Karin Stenberg, Paul Gertler, and Gary L. Darmstadt. “Investing in the Foundation of Sustainable Development: Pathways to Scale up for Early Childhood Development. 2017. “ The Lancet.

          Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. 2014. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Global Citizens in the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

          Almedia, Rita, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino, editors. 2012. The Right Skills for the Job? Rethinking Effective Training Policies for Workers. Washington, DC: Social Protection, Human Development Network, World Bank. 

          Penn IUR Scholar

          Richard Bernknopf

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          Director of the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy Economics

          Research Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico

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            About

            Richard Bernknopf is Research Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. Previously, Berknopf was an economist with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center; his work with USGS has spanned more than three decades. Bernknopf’s research focuses on the demonstration of the relevance to society of natural science information including earth observation and the translation of that information into a form compatible with decision-making processes. He is currently associated with the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy and Economics at the University of New Mexico and the Wharton Geospatial Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of expertise include Natural Science Information and Policy.

            Selected Publications

            Labiosa, William, Paul Hearn, David Strong, Richard Bernknopf, Dianna Hogan, Leonard Pearlstine. 2010. The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model: A Web-Enabled Multicriteria Land Use Planning Decision Support System. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS): 1-10.

            Bernknopf, Richard L., Sharyl J. M. Rabinovici, Nathan J. Wood, Laura B. Dinitz. 2006. The Influence of Hazard Models on GIS-based Regional Risk Assessments and Mitigation Policies. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. 6(4/5/6): 369-387.

            Bernknopf, R., T. Smith, A. Wein. 2006. The Effect of Spatially Correlated Failures on Natural Hazard Damage Assessments. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting: abstract #GC43A-04.

            Affiliated PhD Student

            Kathy Bi

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            Doctoral Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics program

            About

            Kathy is a fourth year doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, studying urban and real estate economics. She is interested in the drivers of spatial inequality and the consequences of place-based policies. Prior to graduate school, Kathy worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Williams College, majoring in Economics. 

            Emerging Scholar

            Peter Blair

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            Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University

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              About

              Peter Blair is the Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard University. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with his PhD in Applied Economics in 2015. His intellectual curiosity for economics developed from his experience as a young entrepreneur. As an Economics major at the College of the Bahamas, hisknowledge of the field grew in a more formal way. He received his undergraduate and graduate training in Theoretical Particle Physics at Duke University and Harvard University, which equipped him with the technical modelling tools to pursue graduate studies in Economics.

              Fellow

              Monica Brezzi

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              Head, Governance Indicators and Performance Evaluation Division, OECD

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                Monica Brezzi is Head of the Governance Indicators Division at OECD. Her current activities focus on the analysis of regional comparative advantages and the assessment of policies to reduce inequalities in the access to key services for citizens. She has recently contributed to design a web mapping tool to help decision makers and citizens develop a better knowledge of their society using statistical information. Before joining OECD, she worked for the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy where she contributed to design and launch a performance-based policy to measure the efficiency of local public services. 

                Fellow

                Paul C. Brophy

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                Principal, Brophy & Reilly, LLC

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                  About

                  Paul C. Brophy is a principal with Brophy & Reilly, LLC – a consulting firm specializing in economic development, housing and community development, and the management of complex urban redevelopment projects – and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Advisor to the Center for Community Progress, and a Senior Scholar at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. One of Brophy’s specialties is the improvement of older industrial cities and the neighborhoods within those cities. He is also Senior Advisor to Enterprise Community Partners. Prior to his forming Brophy & Reilly, LLC in 1993, Brophy was President and Co-CEO of the Enterprise Foundation and Executive Director of ACTION-Housing Inc., a nonprofit housing development and neighborhood enhancement organization located in Pittsburgh. He was Director of the first Department of Housing for the City of Pittsburgh, and the Executive Director of the City’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, responsible for downtown and neighborhood improvement.

                  Selected Publications

                  Brophy, Paul C. 2013. A Market-Oriented Approach to Neighborhoods. In Revitalizing American Cities, Susan M. Wachter and Kimberly Zeuli, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

                  Brophy, Paul C., and Alice Shabecoff. 2001. A Guide to Careers in Community Development. Washington, DC: Island Press.

                  Nenno, Mary K., Paul Brophy, Michael Barker. 1982. Housing and Local Government. Washington, DC: International City Management Association.

                  Ahlbrandt, Roger S. and Paul C. Brophy. 1975. Neighborhood Revitalization: Theory and Practice. Boston: Lexington Books.

                  Fellow

                  Mengke Chen

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                  Director, Tencent

                  About

                  Mengke Chen recently received her PhD in City and Regional Planning at PennDesign and is currently the Director at Tencent. Her research interests include economic development, transportation investment (high-speed rail investment), and transportation and land use. Chen is particularly interested with regards to the impact of high speed rail development on urban economics in Chinese cities, as well as in Europe. The profound societal and economic impact of high-speed rail in contemporary society also constitutes a chief focus of her research. Chen received her Master’s in Urban Spatial Analytics from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.S. and G.I.S. from Peking University in Beijing, China.

                  Selected Publications

                  Chen, Mengke and Matthias N. Sweet. “Does regional travel time unreliability influence mode choice?” Transportation. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2011.

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